Florida Teacher’s Aide Guilty of Drug Trafficking And Firearm Offenses

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Orlando, Florida – A federal jury has found Benjamin Jenkins, 36, guilty of distributing and possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug-trafficking crime, and using a telephone in committing the drug offense.

He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to life, in federal prison.

According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, on October 11, 2015, Jenkins, who was a Titusville High School football coach and Brevard County teacher’s aide at the time, sold 28 grams of cocaine to a confidential informant for $1,300 in the parking lot of a Titusville Wal-Mart. While Jenkins sat in his car and counted the money for the cocaine, he had a Springfield Arms .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol in his lap.

The transaction was arranged over Jenkins’s cellphone.

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